Peter's Blog 10.3.2004

Written KLog module.

Written KLog module. This allows me to go:

#
import KLog

KLog.HookError()
KLog.SendEmail()

print "Wifffle"

wang()

HookError

hooks the global exception handler so errors are written to log output.

SendEmail

cause it to email me error logs

There is also:

KLog.SetLogFile( "c:\\tmp\\log.txt")

which writes log output to a log file.

Python logging module:

Python logging module: a good reference is http://www.red-dove.com/python_logging.html.

It looks to me to be horribly over engineered.

It is kinda cool:

#
import logging
import logging.handlers

#
# Set up basic handling.
#
logging.basicConfig()
log = logging.getLogger( "Test")

#
# Log info messages and higher.
#
log.setLevel( logging.INFO)

#
# An info message
#
log.info( "Blah")

#
# Add a handler that will send email
#
log.addHandler( logging.handlers.SMTPHandler( <server>, <from>, <to>, <subject>)) 

try:
        h = wang
except:
        log.exception( "oopsy daisy")

The output looks like this:

INFO:Test:Blah
ERROR:Test:oopsy daisy
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "\Tmp\try.py", line 13, in ?
    h = wang
NameError: name 'wang' is not defined

I like putting prints in my scripts and I never get round to tidying them up. Maybe I could get into the habit of using this.

ISilo'd the blog and it looks good to me.

ISilo'd the blog and it looks good to me. My biggest dislike is the way long lines of preformatted text overflow the boxes. I think there are two solutions:

1. Wrap the long lines in python

2. Remove the boxes, go for horizontal bars instead.

0ption 1 is a bodge, 2 is the way to go but it's a shame as I like the boxes.